Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Christmas Time

Christmas Time is in full swing here at the Baldwin house.
Anna helped put up the Christmas tree.  She loves pushing the button that makes our pre-lit-pre-decorated tree move up and down.  
I use to mock Devin for buying such a silly tree. But I have come to love it.

Our ward did an awesome service project for the Ward Christmas party.  We made Infant Kits with the goal of having each child in the ward be able to take a kit and place it in the manger, a gift for a baby, just like the gifts for the Baby Jesus.  It was an amazing experience working as a ward to gather and make the materials needed.  The night of the ward party all the materials were ready, we put together our kits and reached the goal.  It was neat to see the kids take their gifts to the manger.  

The thing I loved was that Anna really got it.  
She understood that there was a baby somewhere that needed a blanket, just like the Baby Jesus.
It was quite the sight. 

The next day we made gingerbread houses with the Hendersons.  Devin and I swallowed our "what kind of cool gingerbread house can we make" pride and just helped Anna decorate the house.  She had a great time.


The rest of the crew did too.



Nicholas enjoyed having all the toys to himself.

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